Courses Taught by Prof.
Binford
Fall
2012
GIS4037/5038c (section 6234/2926) Digital Image Processing/Remote Sensing
Spring 2013
TBA
Research Study Areas

Southwest Africa
Southeast Asia
North
America
| Many smoke plumes are visible in Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in this SeaWiFS image. Dust can also be seen blowing offshore in Namibia. | From www.earthscienceworld.org: This true-color image of mainland Southeast Asia was acquired on November 30, 2001, by the Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), flying aboard NASA’s Terra spacecraft. The light brown Mekong River winds its way through the center of the Cambodian jungle and into southern Vietnam. The dark blue patch to the left of the river at the bottom of the image is the Tonle Sap. Literally translated to mean Great Lake, the Tonle Sap is the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia. During the rainy season from May to October, the lake will more than double in size growing from its wintertime extent of 2,500 square kilometers to over 13,000 square kilometers. | From http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/SeaWiFS_ Thirteen_Years_Of_Observing_Our_Home_ Planet_999.html. This image shows the gradient in both land and water-based plant life. The dark blues in the oceans represent largely chlorophyll-free zones, while the greens are highly productive regions. The red zones, such as the Chesapeake Bay, are areas where phytoplankton and algae has bloomed to harmful levels. The range of brown to dark green on land shows the difference in the U.S. between the arid west, the grassland plains and the more heavily forested east. Credit: NASA. For a larger version of this image please go here. |
Link to the Interdisciplinary Program in Geographic Information Systems at the University of Florida
Links to Interesting Remote Sensing and GIS Resources
Links to Interesting Paleoecology and Landscape Ecology Resources
Links to Interesting Land
Use/Land Cover Change Research Resources
RESEARCH NOTES

Prof. Binford engaged in field work near Kibale National Park, Uganda
NSF Grant BCS-0433787:
Economic Growth, Social Inequality, and Environmental Change in
Thailand and Cambodia. SES-HSD Agents of Change Program. 15 September
2004 - 15 February 2008. (under construction). http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/mbinford/thailand_cambodia/HSD_project.html
Collaborative Research: Consequences of Parks for Land Use,
Livelihood Diversification, and Biodiversity in
NASA Grant NAG-5-9331:
Land-Use and
Land-Cover Change: Decadal-Scale Dynamics of Land Ownership, and Carbon
Storage
Patterns in the Southeastern Lower Coastal Plain Region of the U.S.
National
Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Earth Science, Land
Use/Land
Cover Change Program. 1 May 2000 – 31 December 2003.
Selected Recent publications:
Zhang, G., Chr. Thomas, M.Y. Leclerc, A. Karipot, H. L. Gholz, M.W. Binford, and Th. Foken. 2007. On the effect of clearcuts on
turbulence structure above a forest canopy. Theor. Appl.
Climatol. 88, 133–137.
Thailand/Cambodia
Environment-Economics Interactions
Landscape Planning
Shearer, A.W., D.A. Mouat, S.D.
Bassett, M.W. Binford, C.W. Johnson, J.A. Saarinen.
2006. Examining development-related uncertainties for environmental
management: Strategic planning scenarios in Southern California. Landscape and Urban Planning 77:
359–381
Lake Titicaca Human-Environment Interactions
Weng,
C., M.B. Bush, J.H. Curtis, A.L. Kolata, T.D. Dillehay, M.W. Binford.
2006. Deglaciation and Holocene climate change in the western Peruvian
Andes. Quaternary Research 66:
87–96.
Nitrogen Fixation
in
Soils and Canals of Rehabilitated Raised-Fields of the Bolivian
Altiplano. Biotropica
31(2):255-267.
Climate Variation and the Rise and Fall of an Andean Civilization. Quaternary Research 47:235-248.
Image of Lakes Titicaca and Poopo Provided by the SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center